Apparatus for dispelling electricity in delivering sheets into or from printing-presses.



No. 699,!60. Patented May 6, I902- F. A. EYLER.

APPARATUS FOR DISPELLING ELEGTBICITY IN DELIVERING SHEETS INTO AND FROM PRINTING PRESSES.

[Application filed Feb. 2, 1901.)

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(No Model.)

' mom Wow N0. 699,!60. Patented ma a, 1902.

F. A. EYLER. APPARATUS FOR DISPELLING ELECTRICITY IN DELIVERING SHEETS INTO AND FROM PRINTING PRESSES.

[Application filed Feb. 2, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES 'l -rn nivfr OFFICE.

FRANK ALRUs EYLER, or HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF 'IO INNES HENRY, on HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

APPARATUS FOR DlSPELLlNG ELECTRICITY lN DELIVERING SHEETS INTO OR FROM PRlNTlNG-PRESSES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 699,160, dated May 6, 1902.

Application filed February 2, 1901. Serial No. 45,730. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, FRANK ALBUs EYLER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Harrisburg, inthe county of Danphin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Dispelling Electricity in De-. livering Sheets into or from Printing-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

In the art of printing it is a well-known and established fact that paper when subjected to certain atmospheric conditions contains more or less electricity and that the press during the operation of printing generates a greater or less amount, according to the condition of the atmosphere and the speed of the press. practical printers'that the electrical element which is present during the process of printing will cause the printed or partially-print- 'on the delivery-table. -'M y invention is designed to obviate these difficulties and objections. To this end Imake use of certain details of construction, arrangement, and combination of parts,'all0f which will be more fully described hereinafter, and the specific points of novelty in which will be designated in the appended claims, which are intended to accord in their terms, spirit, and meaning with the prior state of the art and the existing law.

Before proceeding further with a detailed description of the several auxiliary features of my invention I desire to distinctly state and emphasize the fact that although I have shown in the accompanying drawings and described in the following specific description certain component and. cooperative parts which I deem sufficiently improved and operative to carry out the fundamental principles herein incorporated I do not confine myself to the exact details of construction so illustrated and described, since obvious departures may be madewithout deviation from the inherent and generic features constitut- 5o ing the gist hereof.

In the drawings forming a part of this speci- It is also well known to nearly all.

flcation, Figure l is a view illustrating the device as applied to a printing-press, certain parts of the press not deemed essential to show the invention being omitted. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the device as detached. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of one of the burners.

, Referring by letters to the drawings, A represents a supply-pipe secured to the side of the press and connected at any suitable point beneath the floor to a gas-main, (which it is not deemed essential to show.) The pipe should be insulated ,from the press, or, if found more desirable, a flexible insulated tube maybe employed in lieu thereof.

Connected to the upper end of the supplypipe by rigid or flexible joint B is the device proper, which consists'of a small tube C, provided'with a stop-cock D and set into the end of a larger tube E, which may be of any shape, material, and dimensions found most desirable. The free end of the tube 0 projects into the'tube E and is provided with a small jet E, which is in a line with the center of two oppositely-disposed apertures Gin the respective sides of the tube E and an apertureHin the top thereof, thus forming an atmospheric inlet.

Arranged in a line upon the top of the tube E is a series of screw threaded apertures I,

adapted to engage-the threads'J upon the burners K, which are similar to a hollow disk, having its upper surface concaved, as plainly shown at L, andprovided with a series of ap-- ertures M, thus forming a burner which will give a low but hot' flame.

Clamped over the burners is a split cylindrical wire-gauaetube N, adapted to prevent the sheets from coming in contact with the flames. While I have shown this manner of attaching the screen, it is obvious that other forms of screens and a difierent vmannerof attachment may beemployed.

Although I- have shown jthe invention as attached to one style of printing-presses, it is obvious that it may be attached to almost any style of press now in'use and also to any style of folding-machines. In some presses where two or more cylinders are employed for instance, the Web-press-it will be necessary to provide the machine with as many dispellers as there are cylinders in order that each impression shall pass over a dispeller before the sheet is finally delivered. When the sheets are automatically fed into a press, electricity is generated in the paper While going through the rolls and tapes of the feeder. Accordingly I provide a dispeller which is arranged in juxtaposition to the enterin g sheets approxi mately near the first cylinder.

It will be readily understood that as the sheet passes over the dispeller the electric element is attracted by the heat and is passed off or grounded through the supply-pipe. It will also be readily seen that I provide a device for dispelling electricity which is exceedingly cheap and simple in its construction, one which is adapted to consume gas, vapor, or fluid and will efficiently perform all of its intended functions.

Having thus described the various features of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to'sccurc by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a device for dispelling electricity from printing-presses, a half-oval or other shaped tube having a series of burners arranged in a line upon the top thereof, atmospheric inlets in one end of the said tube, a detachable wiregauze screen over the said burners and a connection to a supplypipe, substantially as shown and described.

2. A device for dispelling electricity from paper, in combination with a printing-press, a half-oval or other shaped tube closed at both ends, a series of burners arranged upon the tube, a detachable wire-gauze screen over the said burners, atmospheric inlets in one end of the tube and a connection to a supply-pipe, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand in the presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK ALBUS EYLER.

Witnesses:

CLARA M. SCHMIDT, FRANK D. STICKNEY. 

